If you’ve been watching my social media at all, you’ve seen me talking about the book The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks. It’s an older book, from 2009, but still very powerful.  In this book, Dr. Hendricks challenges us to change our thoughts so that we can feel good all the time. He says that … Continue reading Are You Willing to Feel Better?

Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay You may know that I go Live on Facebook several times a week, talking about various topics - mindset, nutrition, exercise, and so on. I have a lot of fun with these videos, and you can find them on my social media. Just search my name. The other day, I … Continue reading How to Set Boundaries With Those Who Have None

So … we thought March and April were stressful … as we approach September, we might be thinking back nostalgically to that relatively simple time.  Here in Manitoba, the whole place shut down back in March. No school, no restaurants, no cafes. All non-essential businesses closed down. The message was - stay home. We did … Continue reading Achieving Inner Peace

Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay Over this past weekend I reread Gary Keller’s book, The ONE Thing. This guy is one of the founding partners of Keller Williams, a very large and successful real estate company. So he probably knows what he’s talking about, with regards to achieving success. I’ve always had issues with … Continue reading The ONE Thing for Scattered Folks

This week, Manitoba celebrated a long weekend known as Terry Fox Day. This icon of vision and determination was born in Winnipeg, but grew up in British Columbia. If you are not familiar with his story, you can find it here. In brief, Terry Fox was a young athlete who had his leg amputated due … Continue reading Are You Like Terry Fox?

Stress seems to be an ever-present companion in our current lives - people might be just tad more short-tempered than usual. It might be a good time to consider taking some steps to alleviate it. The root of the distress we are feeling is our thoughts - we might feel like helpless twigs being rushed … Continue reading 3 Tips for Dealing with Stress

I recently heard Mel Robbins discussing the distinction between guilt and shame, giving of course appropriate credit to Brené Brown, the renowned shame researcher.  I was listening to an audiobook called “Work It Out”, in which Mel coaches women who are having issues in their workplace. Of course, as Mel points out numerous times, there … Continue reading Is it Guilt … or Shame?

Image by Manfred Richter from Pixabay If you felt a sting when you saw this title, please know that it’s directed at myself, as well. When I really started delving into the concept of the fixed mindset, I was quite horrified to find out how much of it applied to me! In the last chapter … Continue reading How to Stop Feeling Entitled

Image by salmerf from Pixabay I’ve been working my way through Carol Dweck’s seminal book Mindset. It explains how people, in general, can have one of two mindsets (or a mixture of the two, we are all complex creatures!) - either a fixed mindset, which assumes that intelligence is a fixed attribute and can never … Continue reading Is Praise Making You Stupid?